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02-22-2013, 04:53 AM | #1 |
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Private Jan Mazur, Mechanic, Polish Armed Forces In The West
An interesting group of fotographs and docs to a Polish Armed Forces in the West soldier.
The group consists of a set of photographs from his service - from the Middle East, through Egipt, Italy to Great Britain; his 1948 polish Military ID, 1963 war-related disabled person ID and two docs to his "cousin" (see below). Jan Mazur, born in 1899 in Nowogródek near Nieświerz started his military service in 1917 in Russia. He than had complicated military record, but after 1939 he found himself in the Soviet Union, where he managed to join the Anders's Army, with which he left the Soviet Union and went through all the route. He was a car mechanic there and was promoted to pfc rank. After the war he lived in Great Britain for two more years and in 1947 he returned to Poland. Apparently he didn't fall victim to any repressions, even tough many former soldiers of the Armed Forces in the West were accused of espionage and other crimes in the stalinist era. First, let's have a look at his military ID: Apparently he was a locksmith in civilian life and had only very basic education - 2 classes of the primary school (however, he attended a very different school - in the beggining of the XX century on the territories still under Russian Empire control) and could speak Russian (apparently not English)... |
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